Anna Letitia Barbauld Quotes

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

We are always inclined to love and care for that which we know.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She knew the slope of his cheeks, and the exact shade of his eys, brownish near the iris, melting into green at the edge. And his mouth-she knew that mouth, the look of it, the feel of it. She knew his smile, and she knew his frown, and she knew- she knew far to much.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.